Apologies for the scatological slang in the title, but Walter Russell Mead, son of Loren B. Mead, makes this provocative point in an article under that title:

In the spirit of Martin Luther, let me post a provocative thesis on the wall:  If virtually the entire regional and national staff of every mainline denomination were to be called home to heaven overnight in a mainline version of the Rapture, leaving only the equivalent of Bishop Baker and his secretary in their place, I am sure that someone somewhere would notice a difference, but the effect on either the spiritual state of American Christians or the health and well being of local congregations throughout the United States would be hard to detect with the naked eye.

As someone who works at a Pentecostal denomination, let me say…Ouch!

And read the whole thing.